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Sometimes, I just have to wish that Texas were a whole 'nother country.

It's certainly behaving like one.

What the heck is wrong with the Texas legislature?

What's wrong is that they apparently haven't read the Constitution separating church and state. To which I say "Hel-LO!" Sheesh. Were I a Texas resident, I'd be all over my representatives about this. I grumble in concert with you.

Just went and actually read the article. The little book the article is reporting on assumes the reader will be Christian. How...sweet. When exactly was it that the US became an officially Christian country?

The Joseph Campbell book I read over the weekend is a collection of his diaries from around 1954-1955, when he was in India and Japan. Much of his commentary is remarkably applicable to today's US Government. Christian schools and universities in Occupied Japan got big funds from the US; so did national universities. Only one group was left out: the Shinto and Buddhist universities. US policy was pretty heavily slanted then, too.